Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:386 Primary Sponsor:Bryan Committee Number:15 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Drivers license, incompetent person Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Transportation Computer Document Number:NO5/8850BD.93 Introduced Date:19930209 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930209 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Bryan Giese Type of Legislation:General Bill
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386 Senate 19930209 Introduced, read first time, 15
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-1-40, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PERSONS WHO MUST NOT BE PERMITTED OR LICENSED TO DRIVE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, SO AS TO DELETE THE PROVISION FOR MENTALLY DISABLED OR DISEASED PERSONS AND INCLUDE INCAPACITATED AND INCOMPETENT PERSONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-1-40 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 56-1-40. The department shall may not issue any a motor vehicle driver's license under this article to a person:
(1) Any person who is under sixteen years of age, except that the department may issue a beginner's or instruction permit as provided in Sections Section 56-1-50 and 56-1-60 to any a person who is at least fifteen years of age and except that the Department may issue a special restricted driver's license to any a person who is at least fifteen years old and less than sixteen years of age as provided in Section 56-1-180;
(2) Any person whose license has been suspended during such suspension or any person whose license has been revoked, except as otherwise provided for in this article;
(3) Any person who is an habitual drunkard, an habitual user of narcotic drugs, or an habitual user of any other another drug to a degree which renders him incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle;
(4) Any person who has previously has been adjudged to be afflicted with or suffering from any mental disability or mental disease incapacitated or incompetent and who has not at the time of application has not been restored to capacity or competency by methods provided by law;
(5) Any person who is required by this article to take an examination, unless such the person shall have successfully passed such passes the examination;
(6) Any person who is required under the laws of this State to deposit proof of financial responsibility and who has not deposited such proof; or
(7) Any other person who may must not be issued a license as otherwise provided by the laws of this State."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.